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lower firm specificity locate farther away from one another, and argue that it can be concluded that the "poaching" argument …
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lower firm specificity locate farther away from one another, and argue that it can be concluded that the "poaching" argument …
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agglomeration economies, i.e. we examine whether firms share risks from idiosyncratic and sector specific shocks through labor … pooling. Estimating wage functions we find that job turnover depresses wages at the regional and the firm level, indicating … employment shocks. Both findings provide evidence that labor pooling matters as a source of agglomeration economies by allowing …
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The objective of this paper is to construct and quantitatively assess an equilibrium search model with on-the-job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers enter the labour market with different abilities and firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed...
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The objective of this paper is to construct and quantitatively assess an equilibrium search model with on-the-job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers enter the labour market with different abilities and firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290001
This paper constructs and quantitatively assesses an equilibrium search model with on-the- job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers differ in their innate abilities and firms in their productivities. Wages are dispersed because of search frictions and workers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009661663
non-exporting firms. Our results show that agglomeration economies at zip-code level strongly effect the location decision … of industrial establishments and find the presence of agglomeration shadows, one of the core predictions of the standard … New Economic Geography formulations. -- Firm Location ; Agglomeration Economies ; Agglomeration Shadows …
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Do trade unions benefit from economic crises by attracting new members among workers concerned about job security? To address this question, we provide a comprehensive empirical investigation based on panel data from Germany, where workers individually decide on their membership. We analyse...
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Do trade unions benefit from economic crises by attracting new members among workers concerned about job security? To address this question, we provide a comprehensive empirical investigation based on panel data from Germany, where workers individually decide on their membership. We analyse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249121